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vjkane
post Sep 3 2022, 03:34 PM
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Here is a community announcement just put out by NASA. Total mission PI costs of $1.2B, earliest launch in 2031.


Estimated Release of draft AO …...November 2022 (target)

Estimated Release of final AO ……November 2023 (target)

Estimated Proposal due date ……..March 2024 (target)


This community announcement is the fifth in a series to provide an advance notice of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) plan to release an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) to solicit New Frontiers Program mission investigations. The New Frontiers Program conducts Principal Investigator (PI)-led space science investigations in SMD’s planetary programs under a not-to-exceed cost cap for the PI-Managed Mission Cost (PMMC). The target release date for the final AO is Fall 2023. This NF5 announcement shares some policies under consideration for the AO and invites public comment to NASA.

The policies described in this announcement are not final. Public feedback to this announcement will be considered by NASA as part of the ongoing AO preparation process to revise these and other policies. SMD’s Planetary Science Division (PSD) estimates the policies in this announcement may have the most significant impact on proposers’ responses to the AO.

The draft policies offered for public comment are the following:

Mission Themes: Mission investigations will be limited to the following mission themes (listed without priority), with the science objectives specified in either the Decadal Survey [solarsystem.nasa.gov] or the previously issued New Frontiers 4 AO [nspires.nasaprs.com]:

· Comet Surface Sample Return
· Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin Sample Return
· Ocean Worlds (only Enceladus)
· Saturn Probe
· Io Observer
· Lunar Geophysical Network


Cost Cap: PI-Managed Mission Cost (PMMC) for investigations will have two cost caps. The PMMC for Phases A-D will be capped at $900M (FY22$) with exclusions as noted in this announcement. The PMMC for Phase E will be capped at $300M (FY22$) with exclusions as noted in this announcement. The now-standard 25% minimum reserve on Phases A-D will be required within the PMMC. Development of flight or ground software, ground hardware, or testbed development or refurbishment that occurs after launch will be considered deferred Phase C/D work and their costs will be included under the PMMC cost cap for Phases A-D. Only costs related to spacecraft and science operations will be considered part of the Phase E PMMC cost cap. Lower-cost investigations and cost-efficient operations are encouraged.

Step 2 Selections: NASA intends to select up to three proposals to proceed to Step 2 to conduct a mission concept study followed by downselection of up to one mission investigation to proceed into development. NASA will provide $5M (Real Year$) to each selectee(s) for this mission concept study.

Government Furnished Equipment (GFE)/Tech Incentives: NASA currently does not plan to offer an incentive to infuse particular NASA-developed technologies under the New Frontiers 5 AO. NASA will revisit the availability, utility, and readiness of technologies prior to the release of the final AO.

Launch Readiness Date: Mission investigations must be ready to launch no earlier than Fall 2031 and no later than Fall 2034.

Launch Vehicle: Launch Vehicle costs and procurement will be the responsibility of NASA. NASA intends to offer all launch vehicle performance capabilities (defined in previous AOs from Low through High) as GFE. Its cost will not be included in the PMMC. The cost of mission specific and special launch services (i.e., larger fairing or the flight of nuclear materials) will be included within the PMMC. Details of these specialized costs are still under discussion.

Non-U.S. Contributions: The value of non-U.S. contributions remains constrained as was done for recent New Frontiers and Discovery Program AOs. The total value of non-U.S. contributions may not exceed one-third of the PMMC for phases A-D, and the value of non-U.S. contributions to the science payload may not exceed one-third of the total payload cost.

In addition, NASA and ESA are working to formalize a partnership for the New Frontiers 5 AO that would make available an ESA contribution to proposers. The contribution can include hardware procured by ESA from European vendors and/or other services, such as ground segment support, to be considered under ESA responsibility. Scientific instruments are explicitly not included as an option under this potential partnership.

Nuclear Power Sources: Mission investigations may utilize radioisotope power systems (RPS) provided by NASA. Radioisotope Heater Units (RHUs) also are available for use as localized heat sources. For electrical power, up to one Next Generation Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) will be offered by NASA. Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (MMRTGs) are not planned to be offered under the New Frontiers 5 AO. The cost for the Next Generation RTG and/or RHUs and associated specialized launch services will be included within the PMMC. Information on these costs and the performance characteristics of the Next Generation RTG and RHUs will be made available at a later date.

Additional Opportunities: As has been done for the two most recent New Frontiers and Discovery Program AOs, requests for including Student Collaborations, Science Enhancement Options, and Technology Demonstrations are deferred to the Step-2 mission concept study. Though deferred, information on these opportunities will be provided no later than the AO release date.

NASA has not approved the issuance of the New Frontiers AO and this notification does not obligate NASA to issue the AO and solicit proposals. Any costs incurred by prospective investigators in preparing submissions in response to this notification or the planned Draft and Final New Frontiers 5 AO are incurred completely at the submitter's own risk

Further information will be posted on the New Frontiers Program Acquisition Page at https://newfrontiers.larc.nasa.gov/NF5/ [newfrontiers.larc.nasa.gov] as it becomes available. Questions and feedback on the draft policies in this notice are due by October 31, 2022. The draft AO expected to be released in November 2022 presents an additional opportunity to comment on the draft policies in this notice. Questions and feedback may be emailed to Dr. Curt Niebur, the New Frontiers Program Lead Scientist, via curt.niebur@nasa.gov.


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- vjkane   New Frontiers 5 Selection   Sep 3 2022, 03:34 PM
- - vjkane   Looking at this list of NF5 candidate missions (se...   Sep 3 2022, 06:39 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (vjkane @ Sep 3 2022, 11:39 AM) Loo...   Sep 3 2022, 07:00 PM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Sep 3 2022, 11:00 AM)...   Sep 3 2022, 09:44 PM
||- - StargazeInWonder   The Saturn entry probe seems like its rationale ha...   Sep 3 2022, 11:27 PM
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||- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (vjkane @ Sep 3 2022, 01:44 PM) The...   Sep 3 2022, 11:35 PM
|- - volcanopele   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Sep 3 2022, 12:00 PM)...   Sep 6 2022, 05:11 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Sep 6 2022, 10:11 AM...   Sep 6 2022, 05:42 PM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Sep 6 2022, 09:42 AM)...   Sep 6 2022, 08:15 PM
- - vjkane   A couple of more observations on the candidate lis...   Sep 4 2022, 02:44 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (vjkane @ Sep 4 2022, 07:44 AM) ......   Sep 4 2022, 07:09 PM
- - volcanopele   Besides, the redundancy argument didn't stop N...   Sep 6 2022, 09:52 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Sep 6 2022, 02:52 PM...   Sep 6 2022, 11:14 PM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Sep 6 2022, 01:52 PM...   Sep 7 2022, 03:01 AM
|- - StargazeInWonder   Veritas's SAR has a wavelength of about 3 cm a...   Sep 7 2022, 08:47 AM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (StargazeInWonder @ Sep 7 2022, 12...   Sep 7 2022, 03:38 PM
|- - StargazeInWonder   I wouldn't try to guess about the details that...   Sep 7 2022, 05:59 PM
- - vjkane   Moderators: This discussion is getting a bit off t...   Sep 8 2022, 01:11 AM
- - volcanopele   Thanks vjkane. Yes, I think at this point further ...   Sep 8 2022, 03:11 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Sep 8 2022, 08:11 AM...   Sep 8 2022, 05:56 PM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Sep 8 2022, 08:11 AM...   Sep 8 2022, 11:32 PM
- - nprev   Topic moved to Exploration Strategy subforum.   Sep 9 2022, 08:29 AM
- - volcanopele   I saw that announcement... Sigh, what is NASA goin...   Sep 9 2022, 06:20 PM
- - vjkane   Leonard David's latest article states that Chi...   Sep 10 2022, 10:42 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (vjkane @ Sep 10 2022, 03:42 PM) [C...   Sep 11 2022, 06:21 PM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Sep 11 2022, 10:21 AM...   Sep 11 2022, 07:56 PM
|- - StargazeInWonder   The Chinese plan to return a sample from Mars in t...   Sep 12 2022, 01:21 AM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (StargazeInWonder @ Sep 11 2022, 05...   Sep 12 2022, 03:51 AM
|- - StargazeInWonder   The Soviets had a successful lunar program at the ...   Sep 12 2022, 04:54 PM
- - Explorer1   It's probably academic, but the Wolf Amendment...   Sep 11 2022, 04:04 AM
- - JTN   New Frontiers 5 Announcement of Opportunity delaye...   Aug 30 2023, 09:17 PM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (JTN @ Aug 30 2023, 02:17 PM) New F...   Sep 1 2023, 12:55 PM
|- - StargazeInWonder   Interesting (and mainly, unfortunate) set of detai...   Sep 1 2023, 06:07 PM
|- - volcanopele   Not really. A lot of the questions an Io mission w...   Sep 1 2023, 06:55 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Sep 1 2023, 11:55 AM...   Sep 1 2023, 07:58 PM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Sep 1 2023, 02:58 PM)...   Sep 26 2023, 02:19 AM
- - volcanopele   Discussion of JIRAM's mirror issues moved to a...   Sep 8 2023, 01:16 PM
- - bobik   There is some kind of advocacy of joint ESA-NASA P...   Oct 14 2023, 03:44 PM
- - vjkane   QUOTE (bobik @ Oct 14 2023, 07:44 AM) The...   Oct 14 2023, 11:56 PM


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